Is there some legislation that would make it a liability for Microsoft to not moderate all the chat? This move just seems so strange
Having been exposed to some of the stuff going on at other companies communication systems, I have total sympathy for mojang wanting some people off of all their platforms, forever.
Most any system is built like this from the ground up, it’s rather surprising it took them this long.
Maybe in addition to educating users on inclusive language in MS Word [1], they could educate users about the very basics of how computers work. But that would go against MS's interests.
[1] https://www.windowscentral.com/new-microsoft-word-feature-wi...
But the mob comes for everyone.
Game developers don't have to do anything.
They choose to, and the Twitter mob grows more powerful as a result.
It's my opinion that they should stop doing that, because, as they say, the mob comes for all.
The vast majority of dedicated players, common sense, and history.
Yes.
Be my damn guest, as long as it's operated by Microsoft (their public vetted list of servers, realms and so on). However, Minecraft has a jar server that you can download and run yourself, which Microsoft has no business interfering with. If I want to i can setup a "Minecraft against humanity" server and invite my friends, nobody should give two shits. Just monitoring speech at all on a private server makes no sense, and should 100% be opt in.
More generally, the solution to moderation is often private or semi-private groups. There's no one size fits all moderation rules, so as far as possible let people moderate their own spaces. Otherwise you're just renting you speech permissions from a corporation.
Then parents should take care of their kids.
This is like dropping them off on a random street corner and then complaining someone is fucking in an adjacent alley. The world isn't kid safe and it shouldn't be.
The haters are in plain sight.
To quote the big short - "They arn't confessing, they are bragging."
How the turn tables.
I guess people who like to use language that’s “bad” by traditional standards will have to build something new.
I see a difference between bad acts and bad language alone; people are trained to hate certain words but are powerless to prevent certain acts so low hanging fruit is over policed. It’s an outcome of human memory which is a feature of reality we can’t do much about to soothe those who fee oppressed by loss of a bit of figurative self (Minecraft no longer being “for them”).
Granted, that's probably being too charitable for probably 90% of them are most likely driven by trolling/hurting the influencer I dislike, but there certainly is some space there to abuse the feature to make a stand. Unsure if there is any value to accounts now, last I played was over a decade ago, but I assume there are special account bound things now right? otherwise said influencers would just make another account and would be pointless.
...in the context of "the only way to get Microsoft to roll this back is to show how abusable it is".
> Actually, fun project. The sooner it's done, the more likely it will result in this getting pulled back:
> 1) Identify a popular Minecraft YouTuber's UUID > 2) Make a report JSON object absolutely filled with gamer words > 3) Be sure to mention multiple times that "I have the no reports plugin so you can't report me" > 4) Join as many accounts as you have to a private server > 5) Sign and submit the report JSON as each of those accounts
> Famous people losing their accounts will work.
[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/02/momo-...
That will be hard if parents see headlines about "Minecraft" (no, the specific server host won't matter) being used to exploit or otherwise prey upon children and stop buying it.
You make it sound like it's an alien concept that only us techies understand, but it is actually quite a mainstream understanding that once you legally buy a thing then whatever illegal stuff you do with it is a responsibility of law enforcement and not whoever made and sold you that thing. What is alien here is this belief that intentional remote crippling of a product with no court order or anything is somehow even legal
Anyway. If you follow the money real threat to MS bottom line is not losing a 30 bucks one time per household but having people prefer the more moddable, unlockable OG version that the cool kids are playing (JE) over recurring revenue cash cow (bedrock).
On one end is control, and on the other end is freedom from responsibility.
Since MS wants to continuously increase control (for example: by providing a version of Minecraft with a marketplace that they take a cut of), they must also take on increasing amounts of responsibility. Continuing far enough down this path means that every safety and security concern becomes theirs to deal with.
In contrast, Notch originally did almost nothing to control what players did and only trivial amounts of responsibility were placed on him.
The same piling on of responsibilities happened to Apple when they started selling Music.
2. California recently passed a bill which would fine companies which fail to prevent kids from accessing features which are "detrimental" to children's health [1]. Naturally, Microsoft doesn't want to get fined for what edgy gamers say online.
3. (speculation) The censorship police that have infected every other major online platform have now reached gaming.
[1] https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/30/californoa-childrens-onlin...
Let me tell you: if my money is down the drain because some little jackwagon mass-reports some random server and my kids’ accounts are locked, I’m gonna be fucking furious.
If the hoopla around this is true, Microsoft is going to relive its 1990s level hatred from the nerd community—just as parents instead of dorky teens and twenty-somethings running Linux.
I would say that this is pure conspiracy level stuff, but that would be literally the final step of a EEE plan. Microsoft has done this before and there would be no surprise if they actually did that. Will they? I dunno, but it's overall a heavy handed bad move. Everything I've heard about the system is that it's not a great idea.
Find the whales, force the whales to move to walled garden.
Granted that's still a dumb idea, because those people want to be playing Hypixel, which isn't on bedrock. So maybe this is just microsoft's move to say "See, no one is playing Java as much" so they can just stop doing java dev.
But this sure is a walled garden extension I don't like.
https://www.macrumors.com/2010/10/26/apple-history-jobs-rage...
I’d guess that Microsoft gets subpoenas for that stuff and felt it was a risk to be unable to respond.
At the end of the day it's a big market, one to which Minecraft is heavily targeted, and parental paranoia is very profitable.